scholarly journals Properties of local quantum operations with shared entanglement

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (9&10) ◽  
pp. 739-764
Author(s):  
G. Gutoski
Keyword(s):  
Membership Problem ◽  
Noisy Channel ◽  
Complete Positivity ◽  
Linear Functionals ◽  
Completely Positive ◽  
Quantum Operations ◽  
Local Quantum ◽  
Natural Notion ◽  
No Signaling ◽  
Nonlocal Box

Multi-party local quantum operations with shared quantum entanglement or shared classical randomness are studied. The following facts are established: * There is a ball of local operations with shared randomness lying within the space spanned by the no-signaling operations and centred at the completely noisy channel. * The existence of the ball of local operations with shared randomness is employed to prove that the weak membership problem for local operations with shared entanglement is strongly NP-hard. * Local operations with shared entanglement are characterized in terms of linear functionals that are "completely'' positive on a certain cone K of separable Hermitian operators, under a natural notion of complete positivity appropriate to that cone. Local operations with shared randomness (but not entanglement) are also characterized in terms of linear functionals that are merely positive on that same cone K. * Existing characterizations of no-signaling operations are generalized to the multi-party setting and recast in terms of the Choi-Jamio\l kowski representation for quantum super-operators. It is noted that the standard nonlocal box is an example of a no-signaling operation that is separable, yet cannot be implemented by local operations with shared entanglement.

scholarly journals Physical Implementability of Linear Maps and Its Application in Error Mitigation

Quantum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 600
Author(s):  
Jiaqing Jiang ◽  
Kun Wang ◽  
Xin Wang
Keyword(s):  
General Linear ◽  
Local Error ◽  
Decomposition Technique ◽  
Completely Positive ◽  
Linear Map ◽  
Quantum Operations ◽  
Error Mitigation ◽  
Linear Maps ◽  
Analytic Expressions ◽  
Sampling Cost

Completely positive and trace-preserving maps characterize physically implementable quantum operations. On the other hand, general linear maps, such as positive but not completely positive maps, which can not be physically implemented, are fundamental ingredients in quantum information, both in theoretical and practical perspectives. This raises the question of how well one can simulate or approximate the action of a general linear map by physically implementable operations. In this work, we introduce a systematic framework to resolve this task using the quasiprobability decomposition technique. We decompose a target linear map into a linear combination of physically implementable operations and introduce the physical implementability measure as the least amount of negative portion that the quasiprobability must pertain, which directly quantifies the cost of simulating a given map using physically implementable quantum operations. We show this measure is efficiently computable by semidefinite programs and prove several properties of this measure, such as faithfulness, additivity, and unitary invariance. We derive lower and upper bounds in terms of the Choi operator's trace norm and obtain analytic expressions for several linear maps of practical interests. Furthermore, we endow this measure with an operational meaning within the quantum error mitigation scenario: it establishes the lower bound of the sampling cost achievable via the quasiprobability decomposition technique. In particular, for parallel quantum noises, we show that global error mitigation has no advantage over local error mitigation.

scholarly journals Quantum clocks and the temporal localisability of events in the presence of gravitating quantum systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Castro-Ruiz ◽  
Flaminia Giacomini ◽  
Alessio Belenchia ◽  
Časlav Brukner
Keyword(s):  
Reference Frame ◽  
Reference Frames ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Indefinite Metric ◽  
Causal Order ◽  
Quantum Operations ◽  
Unitary Dilation ◽  
Local Quantum ◽  
Fixed Space ◽  
Quantum Clocks

AbstractThe standard formulation of quantum theory relies on a fixed space-time metric determining the localisation and causal order of events. In general relativity, the metric is influenced by matter, and is expected to become indefinite when matter behaves quantum mechanically. Here, we develop a framework to operationally define events and their localisation with respect to a quantum clock reference frame, also in the presence of gravitating quantum systems. We find that, when clocks interact gravitationally, the time localisability of events becomes relative, depending on the reference frame. This relativity is a signature of an indefinite metric, where events can occur in an indefinite causal order. Even if the metric is indefinite, for any event we can find a reference frame where local quantum operations take their standard unitary dilation form. This form is preserved when changing clock reference frames, yielding physics covariant with respect to quantum reference frame transformations.

GEOMETRIC PHASES FOR MIXED STATES DURING UNITARY AND NON-UNITARY EVOLUTIONS

2003 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARUN K. PATI
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Phase ◽  
Parallel Transport ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Mixed States ◽  
Completely Positive Maps ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Unitary Evolution ◽  
Completely Positive ◽  
Quantum Operations ◽  
Positive Maps

Mixed states typically arise when quantum systems interact with the outside world. Evolution of open quantum systems in general are described by quantum operations which are represented by completely positive maps. We elucidate the notion of geometric phase for a quantum system described by a mixed state undergoing unitary evolution and non-unitary evolutions. We discuss parallel transport condition for mixed states both in the case of unitary maps and completely positive maps. We find that the relative phase shift of a system not only depends on the state of the system, but also depends on the initial state of the ancilla with which it might have interacted in the past. The geometric phase change during a sequence of quantum operations is shown to be non-additive in nature. This property can attribute a "memory" to a quantum channel. We explore these ideas and illustrate them with simple examples.

Complete Positivity of Two Class of Maps Involving Depolarizing and Transpose-Depolarizing Channels

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuhong Sun ◽  
Yuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Linear Operators ◽  
Complete Positivity ◽  
Completely Positive Map ◽  
Completely Positive ◽  
Bounded Linear ◽  
Positive Map ◽  
Finite Dimensional ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Finite Dimensional Hilbert Space

In this note, we mainly study the necessary and sufficient conditions for the complete positivity of generalizations of depolarizing and transpose-depolarizing channels. Specifically, we define [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] (the set of all bounded linear operators on the finite-dimensional Hilbert space [Formula: see text] is given and [Formula: see text] is the transpose of [Formula: see text] in a fixed orthonormal basis of [Formula: see text] First, we show that [Formula: see text] is completely positive if and only if [Formula: see text] is a positive map, which is equivalent to [Formula: see text] Moreover, [Formula: see text] is a completely positive map if and only if [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] At last, we also get that [Formula: see text] is a completely positive map if and only if [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] for all [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] are eigenvalues of [Formula: see text].

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